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Farming absorbs 22 percent of cost disasters in developing countries
2015-03-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Nearly a quarter of the damages caused by natural disasters in the developing world affect the agricultural sector, exacting a heavy cost on poor farmers who do not have insurance or the resources to rebuild their lives after floods, droughts or other extreme events, the UNs Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has said. The initial findings of a new report on the impact of natural disasters on agriculture and food security were released by the FAO at the third world conference on disaster...
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Climate change brings disasters on steroids
2015-03-16 04:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SMH: Australia's $5 million contribution to address the devastating impacts of Cyclone Pam is a much-needed and welcome act. But remedial responses like this are not enough. Governments must also develop more proactive tools to help mitigate the impacts of disasters in the first place, including the displacement of people from their homes. Climate change-related displacement is happening now. It is not just a future phenomenon. Reportedly 45 per cent of Tuvalu's population has been displaced by Cyclone...
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World Bank, UK to help poor nations hit natural disasters
2015-03-16 00:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
TNN: Some good news for the developing countries. The World Bank and the UK government has jointly launched a new competitive challenge fund that would help poor nations -- those hit by disasters like floods, cyclones, droughts and earthquakes -- to empower their local communities. The fund, launched on Monday on the sidelines of UN's 3rd World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction at Sendai, will help developing countries design and implement ground-breaking solutions to overcome problems they face...
President cyclone-hit Vanuatu urges global action on disasters
2015-03-15 11:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Governments meeting in Japan to adopt a new global plan to reduce the risk of disasters should heed the devastation caused by a fierce cyclone in the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu and take practical action, the country's president said. "The reality of what is happening now is in Vanuatu," President Baldwin Lonsdale told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview on Sunday in the northeastern Japanese city of Sendai, where the U.N. conference is taking place. "We don't have to depend...
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Japan promises US$4 billion in aid to combat disasters over four years
2015-03-14 09:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Japan will provide assistance amounting to US$4 billion (2.71 billion pounds) in the coming four years to reduce the number of disaster victims and their suffering around the world, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Saturday. Under the initiative, Tokyo will train 40,000 government officials and local leaders - including a project focussed on women - to spearhead national efforts to cut disaster risk and build back better after disasters, Abe told a U.N. conference in the northeastern...
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